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Are you a millennial? UNC students disassociate with the term

By Trevor Lenzmeier | September 9

Millennials might comprise the majority of the American workforce, but they can’t seem to agree on their own name.

Retired teacher featured in photography exhibit

By Chloe Lackey | September 8

When John Pringle was 13 years old, he started saving for a camera.

UNC grad behind the Raleigh Hopscotch festival

By Ryan Schocket | September 8

Hopscotch Music Festival attracts 20,000 people nationwide to Raleigh, features more than 140 bands and is essentially run by two-and-a-half people. ...

FRANK premieres textile art based on Chapel Hill scenes

By Morgan Vickers | September 7

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but the memories of Chapel Hill are woven into Elaine O’Neil’s textile art.

Hanes Art Center hosts a student book art exhibit in the John and June Alcott Gallery. The art works are meant to illustrate academic settings in the south. Students used unconventional materials like linen, handmade paper, leather and movable parts.

More than words on pages

By Kristina Kokkonos | September 4

Art and literature-loving artists joined to produce a new show at John and June Allcott Gallery this week. "Southern Exposure: Academic Book Arts in the ...

Progressive rock festival ProgDay returns to Chapel Hill

By Erin Wygant | September 3

The sound of the ‘70s is back with the 21st annual ProgDay festival. Progressive rock bands from Chile, Belgium, Israel, the U.S. and more will be rocking ...

Q&A with Mipso fiddler Libby Rodenbough

By Sarah Vassello | September 3

They started making music together when the band formed in 2010, the fall of their freshman year at UNC.

UNC summer reading program doesn’t stop with the book

By Marisa Dunn | September 3

Incoming freshmen aren’t the only students who will be able to engage with this year’s summer reading book, “Just Mercy.”

Former slave poet honored in book

By Elizabeth Baker | September 2

A little more than ten years ago, author and illustrator Don Tate didn’t know anything about George Moses Horton.

Swipe right: UNC men 10th hottest in the country on Tinder

By Christine Bang | September 1

According to Tinder, Americans are DTF with UNC guys.

Sophomore Brandon Clark expresses his school pride and interest in art on the bottom of his longboard.

Sophomore pyrographer thanks UNC for believing in his art

By Ryan Schocket | August 31

He’s the student who looks like he’s giving his longboard a tattoo outside Rams Head Dining Hall.

Cirque du Plaza kicks off local series

By Madeline Reich | August 30

Chapel Hill resident Michael Lipkin was waiting to be seated for dinner with his family on West Franklin Street when he saw hula hoopers and face painters, ...

Robert Roskind, owner of Oasis at Carr Mill, performs his one-man play which focused on his years in the hippie counterculture.

Oasis owner performs about his life as a hippie

By Sarah Vassello | August 30

The dimly-lit, around-100-square feet space was filled to capacity, containing around 20 people sitting on oversized couches, chairs and intimate tables. ...

"Punk in Anarchism, Anarchism in Punk" discussion to kick off UNControllables' Radical Rush

By Trevor Lenzmeier | August 30

The Ramones broke up two decades ago, Iggy Pop is rounding seventy years old and the modern layman’s conception of punk music is likely limited to Blink-182 ...

'Loud' concerts raise money to fight cancer

By Kristina Kokkonos | August 27

“Be loud / And move with grace / Explode with light / Have no fear.”

The UNC volleyball team held their annual blue and white scrimmage in Carmichael arena on Friday night.

Married green thumbs nurture a legacy in the soil

By Elizabeth Baker | August 26

Jim Allen came to Chapel Hill in 1968 to join the Carolina Population Center.

Q&A with Emil Kang, executive and artistic director of Carolina Performing Arts

By Sarah Vassello | August 26

Emil Kang, executive and artistic director of Carolina Performing Arts, has been appointed to serve on the selection committee of the Institute of International ...

Duke freshman refuses summer reading book due to graphic imagery

By Ryan Schocket | August 26

Duke University freshmen aren’t reading this year’s summer reading book, “Fun Home,” and it’s not because it’s optional.

Phil Jameson, a professor at Warren Wilson College, performs in front of an audience in Wilson Library. He recently published the book "Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance."

Author, folk dancer shares the steps of Appalachia

By Trevor Lenzmeier | August 26

Phil Jamison was playing banjo at a community dance four decades ago when he volunteered to fill in for an absent dance caller. That spontaneous decision ...

Senior Eric J. Surber practices playing the organ at Chapel of the Cross, where he has been performing at various services for three years.

UNC senior Eric Surber performs in prestigious sacred organ program

By Sarah Vassello | August 26

Senior Eric Surber wakes up every morning to a full schedule.